ctrl-comma, ctrl-comma, CTRL-COMMA! It does all the searching you want for filenames and symbols, substring searches, matching, you name it. It's fantastic, an

ctrl-comma, ctrl-comma, CTRL-COMMA! It does all the searching you want for filenames and symbols, substring searches, matching, you name it. It's fantastic, and they should highlight it way, way more. As for your file finding problem, I don't know why you didn't start typing in the search field on top of the solution explorer. It filters everything in the solution explorer, and also does substring matching.